Hi posie and kiora just spoke to my cousin, whose FIL was involved in these scams. Here's what she said:
Her husband got POA and access to bank accounts and printed out all the bank statements and showed his dad how much money was going out (about a thousand a month apparently - and they were not well off).
He said to his dad that if he wanted it to stop, he would make sure it did. Dad agreed because he had not previously realised how much money he was spending (he had dementia).
Mail was forwarded to son who opened it, sorted it and then sent legitimate mail to neighbour for collection.
Once regular cheques stopped the phone calls started and he bought one of these boxes to screen calls, which was brilliant - you can block foreign calls, sales calls or people you don't want to hear from. (see link)
My cousin says it is illegal in this country but that they operate from abroad.
Hope that some of this might help folks.
www.truecall.co.uk/call-blocker/callblockerdescription.aspx
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